For many Hmong refugees, it was a difficult question to answer. Hmong people historically had not organized their lives around…
What is your religion?: Hmong Americans and the category of religion
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Jurisdictions of the church
Can you reflect a bit on how you see the developments you chart against the history of American Christianity? Even…
Virtual populist regimes
In this contribution I will focus mainly on the cine-populism of south India and the Indian national populisms, which share…
Christian theology, feminism, and unmarked fatherhood
For a female theologian of my age, writing a post on divine fatherhood is a strange throwback experience.
Tainted love
Noah Salomon begins his work with the provocative statement that the “state may have failed according to the criteria of…
Secular supercessionism and alternative modernity
Recent years have seen the resurgence of “metahistories” that seek to provide a single complex narrative of seemingly disparate events…
More takes on the Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives
For those of you following The Immanent Frame's off the cuff discussion of the new State Department's office of religious engagement,…
Department of State launches Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives
Following on talk of earlier plans to create a new "office of religious engagement," the Department of State has formally launched…
Engaging religion at the Department of State
This past week, the US Department of State announced the creation of a new office that “will focus on engagement with…
Culture, nature, and mediation
Matthew Engelke is right: religion is about mediation. Ironically so, because it is about the divine; but because the divine…